Stony Stratford Mummers - Performing every Christmas in the town of Stony Stratford and surrounding villages, collecting for local, national, and international charities.
Derek Gibbons - Local resident provides general information on Stony Stratford.
Mummers Scripts - Scripts and photos of Stony Stratford mummers.
From Gruel to Gourmet - The story of Fegan's home for boys in the village. Information about the founder, the first Fegan boy, life at the orphanage through to one boys life now.
History of Russell First school - A look at the school since it moved to it's present site. Early days 1907 through to 2000 in period blocks, tells about the school days teachers and pupils with photos and sound clips.
Two Churches - The history of two churches in the town during the 20th century. The church of St Mary Magdalene and the church of St Mary and St Giles, their buildings and location, people and their memories plus events and statistics.
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- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
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In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
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-- Anonymous I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
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"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
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That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
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does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
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-- Robert Frost Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
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-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
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-- Anonymous Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Society and Culture I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
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- Frank Lloyd Wright "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Society and Culture "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Society and Culture
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Society and Culture "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
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They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Society and Culture "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Society and Culture
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Society and Culture All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
